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I live and blog in Ann Arbor, Michigan. University of Michigan BA and MA from Eastern Michigan University. One term in the Michigan Army National Guard. The Institute of Land Warfare, Army magazine, Infantry Magazine, Military Review, Naval Institute Proceedings, and Joint Force Quarterly have published my occasional articles. See "Published Works" on the web version for citations.

The Undead Archives

My undead archives pre-Blogger were actually restored to life after Geocities sites went dark. Start at the old home page here.
If you find a link to the old site on the current site or old site, you should be able to replace the "g" in "geocities" with an "r" and make a good link.
Another archived site is here.
It replaces the ".com" with ".ws".
I hope to move all the older archives here (and started that project) but it is really tedious.

Thursday, January 21, 2016

Stirring the Pot

While protesters surely have reason to worry about government corruption in Moldova, have no doubt that Russia is fomenting unrest in this broken remnant of the Soviet Union that lies in a gray region between independence and Russian dominance.

About 7,000 people held an anti-government protest Thursday in the Moldovan capital, a day after demonstrators stormed the legislature after it approved a new pro-European government. ...

Some demonstrators who support opposition political parties want closer links to Russia.

And have no doubt that Russia would use that faction--with broader discontent over corruption making their faction look bigger than it is--to back a Little Green Men offensive to decisively end that attempt to forge links to the West.

Russia would love to bring Moldova back into the fold. Which would have the effect of putting Russian-dominated territory to the west of Ukraine, the south (in newly conquered Crimea), and the east (the Donbas conquered region and Russia proper), leaving only the north still up in the air (where Belarus hosts Russian forces but resists full surrender to Russia).

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Note on site statistics: When I strip out the junk hits from Blogger statistics that seem to come and go in waves, I appear to have about 10,000 hits per month.

My old statistics package, Site Meter, seems to miss a lot and even disappears visits after they've appeared.

I just added a new StatCounter. So far it shows far fewer hits than Blogger and is more in line with Site Meter. But I suspect neither of the non-Blogger statistics register hits from social media. So I'm not sure what my audience size is. It is puzzling to me.

Of course, it is quite possible that my failure to use Facebook and Twitter has handicapped me in getting an audience. Or it may be an additional issue. I may be a blogosaur!